Do i know you?

Chapter 11: Irina

Recap

"They," I directed to Tanya and Irina "Drove Bella away," I stated with full confidence.

"What makes you say that?" Esme inquired, looking perplexed at how they could.

With a lack of any other reason, I merely answered "Who's the mind reader here?" I was too distraught to intelligently argue my point.

"We did no such thing!" Tanya defended, making herself sound distraught over the concept. I didn't know what to say after that, until Eleazar's thoughts came back to mind. He knew what was going on, that I was certain of.

Now

"Edward, why don't you calm down so we can discuss this," Carlisle tried to reason with me, but I was too far gone for it to work.

I pushed Eleazar up against the door frame and snarled "What did they do?" He maintained an era of calm around him, most likely due to his knowledge that if this broke down to a fight he could easily beat me without a second thought.

"Edward!" Carlisle called, shocked by my uncharacteristic display of hostility. I dropped Eleazar immediately but then turned on Carlisle.

"They just ran off your daughter, your biologicaldaughter, and you're telling me to calm down. Why don't you help me get to the bottom of this so we don't lose her for good?" I growled, having no patience for this pointless time wasting conversation while Bella was running off to lord knows where. Every second that passed she was getting farther and farther away and getting harder and harder to find. If we waited too long the trail would run cold, and it would be too late.

"Edward, a moment," he responded, watching me with calm yet weary eyes. I sighed in defeat and shuffled out into the hallway in front of Carlisle. "Alice, see if you can get a sight on Bella," he said as he walked out the door. We were just standing in the hallway, so if we talked normally everyone would be able to hear. Knowing this, Carlisle spoke to me in hushed tones quiet enough to pass unnoticed by those inside the room. "Edward-" he started, but I hastily cut him off.

"I know Carlisle; I'm way out of line. I'm sorry, I won't attack anymore people," I promised, though the way things were going I knew that was most likely going to turn out being a lie.

"Edward! Let me talk?" he asked with a smirk. I nodded, refusing to look at his face. "I've noticed how you feel about my little girl," he simply dropped the bomb. Had I been human, I very nearly would've choked. My wide panicked eyes met his calm understanding gaze for a moment, before I turned my look down to the ground. "Now I can't say that I'm jumping with joy at the concept, and since I see you both as my children it will take me a bit to accept the fact, but I have been your father figure for over a hundred years so there are very few people I would trust more. Just please, you're irrational behavior is not going to get her back any faster. If anything it will prolong this whole ordeal." I finally met his gaze once he finished speaking, torn between astonishment and apologetic, before I just opted to nod.

He nodded in return and turned to go back into the room, but I stopped him. "Thank you," was all I managed to say. He just smiled in return and ushered me back inside to the rest.

We were met with quite the sight. Alice was holding on to Irina's wrist, effectively preventing her from pouncing on Rosalie. Rosalie had Tanya pressed up against a wall snarling at her about how she had no right to even be in this house, let alone to drive people out of it. Irina was trying to claw at Alice's hand, but Jasper had sensed the danger to his wife and was holding her arm in a painfully tight death grip. Esme, Carmen, and Eleazar were looking on in horror at their kids' behavior while Emmett was cheering the whole thing on. Kate stood by him, looking absolutely perplexed as to what in the world was going on.